i-DB's Department Number: 001 Date: 08 01 2002 Author: Intag Source: Intag  General Description The activities of this Department are closely related to the i-Maps Departments, because they share the same Information Retrieval Methodology. As the applications dealt here are rather complex we advise our visitors aand customers to take a look to our White Pages Section to have a general scope of our Systems approach to make the matchmaking between Websites and general users as efficient as possible. We also advise to see our articles concerning our specific knowhow and methodology. Knowhow and methodology What are the I-Website differences Products and Services i-DB References i-DB's Methodology Index of Activities  Construction Above we depict the application reach of this Department. As systems grow in volume they grow exponentially in complexity and is not easy to define specific tasks as in our other Departments. For instance an I-Website involves an Expert Systems (X-Systems), Dynamic Databases, Intelligent Agents, and probably a matchmaking interface, but there are many cases where a specialized module is needed .... More  Consulting AI matters concerns with systems autonomy. The information systems are triggered by decisions: the information flows smooth till some ports where the continuity of the flow and its direction and aggregate value depends of decisions. Many decisions could be made automatically without human intervention. AI, Artificial Intelligence, is the scientific art of trying to emulate and even to excel human abilities concerning thinking and decisions making.... More  Procurement This activity is closely related to the last items we were talking about: AI, appraisals and investors. The dot com crisis left a valuable learning in the market but this learning is not a public concern. The people that suffered the harshness of the crisis are the one that knows now pretty well what not to do in Internet.... More  Support We may administer the i-Websites we build. In some instances we may build a collection of I-Websites as a set of intelligent houses to be sold once built and operating at their full capacities like Realty Investors do in some instances. In any case we may administer those intelligent houses with our own people, from top management till operational basement.  Byproducts and Targets Emerging from I-Maps Department and this Department there are a list of byproducts to attract investors. We are just entering into the realm of the Content Age, centered on Intelligence of Content, that is what comes out from a mass of information under the form of trends, behaviors and principles sustained. Those byproducts are extremely related to businesses targets specialized on those products: Head Quarter Strategy and Planning, Government Strategy Policies and Planning, Intelligence Services, Intelligence of marketing, Editorials, Press Media, National Intelligence Services. The "value" of intelligence is in part quantitative but essentially is a qualitative asset, the thing that enables an organization to accomplish something essential, strategically crucial.